Light has shared a picture of her recently made quilt which is positively lovely. Pink is one of my favorite colors! I used to sew but the amount of work, time, energy and creativity that goes into a quilt I cannot fathom. The 'quilt talk' that happens between fellow quilters is a foreign language to me. I wanted you to see this. I think that when a quilt is completed, it is an event.
If you click on the picture to make it bigger, you will see it is pink, yellow and green, the colors I use in my bedroom. I just happened to be at the cloth store, saw the pink daisy print and the quilt was born. No new baby on the way- I needed a new quilt for my bedroom, that's all :)
Ah, Ruff... you ask a difficult question. Quilts take different times depending on how complicated the pattern is, how much piecing needs to be done and how experienced the quilter is. I've been sewing for 50 years (gulp! Hard to admit that one:o ) so putting the quilt top together is usually a very quick and easy event. What takes me the longest is the actual quilting, where you join the top to the backing with the batting ("fluff layer in the middle"). This quilt will fit my twin sized day bed, is made up of 40 squares (20 of them pieced squares) and took 2 weekends to make the top. I'm in the process of machine quilting it and if the machine will cooperate and let me do a row each evening after work, it will take me about a week and a half to finish (or if I had one more weekend I could call my own, I could say it took me 3 weekends to make.) I've never logged the hours because I'm always working in between my job and other responsibilities.
Meggie showed me a delightful new pattern which works up very quickly and it's only going to take a few hours to put the top together. On the other hand, I've got quilts that were completely made by hand (no machine stitching at all) which took me months to take from start to finish. For the most part, it all depends on how much time I have to devote to the quilt.
I used to make beautiful clothes when the kids were little. People used to dress up for church then. When Chris was a little girl, she had gloves, patent leather shoes and a pretty hat at Easter time. We, myself and all 4 of the kids, were color coordinated. One year I made smocked dresses for the girls, a yellow and a gold. They looked so nice. I had a print yellow dress and I don't remember what I did for the boys. They sold 'invisible' zippers then which I loved. People used to tell me what a nice family we were. It was fun.
yeah, I remember those days, and dressing up for church and having different "everyday" clothes...how time has changed. I bet the stuff you made was truly beautiful.
I learned to sew by making my doll clothes, then my own clothes and that led eventually to clothes for my boys. Somewhere around high school I discovered quilting...
It sure is a beauty!
